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See Hoover girls break national indoor record in hurdle relay race at New Balance Nationals (video)

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The Hoover High School girls 4x55-meter shuttle hurdle relay team broke the national indoor record at the New Balance Nationals indoor meet in New York, New York, on Saturday, March 15, 2014. They are, from left, Brittley Humphrey, Caitlyn Little, Errin Perry and Sarah Sanford. (Photo courtesy of Kyle Brazeil/milesplit.com)

NEW YORK, New York - Four girls from Hoover High School broke a national high school record in a hurdle relay race at the New Balance Nationals indoor meet in New York this weekend.

Seniors Sarah Sanford and Errin Perry, sophomore Brittley Humphrey and freshman Caitlyn Little ran the indoor 4x55-meter shuttle hurdle relay race faster than it has ever been run before by any high schoolers in the United States, with a time of 31.35 seconds.

The teams that came in second and third place - from Western Branch, Va., and Winslow Township, N.J., -- also broke the old record, with times of 31.46 and 31.87, respectively. The announcer for the race deemed it as the "greatest shuttle hurdle race in history."

See the race below:

Hoover High coach Devon Hind said the top three teams all came to win, but the Hoover girls came out on top.

"They were just flawless. They ran a perfect race," Hind said. "I think they all ran faster than they've ever run individually ... We had good competition, so it pushed us."

Hind said the girls knew they could probably win the race when they came, but he never thought it would be possible to beat the national record. "I didn't even know what the national record was," he said.

Hoover High School senior Sarah Sanford crosses the finish line as the last leg of Hoover's 4x55-meter shuttle hurdle relay team, helping the team capture a first-place finish and set a national record at the New Balance Nationals indoor meet in New York, N.Y., on Saturday, March 15, 2014. (Still shot from video on RunnerSpace.com)

Humphrey said in an interview with milesplit.com that she, Sanford and Perry had run together in the event before but always placed fourth or fifth.

"We've kind of been average, and we've just been working and working and working, trying to lower our times," Humphrey said. "We finally got it, and we're happy."